Date
Participants
Goals
Identify ways groups can work as effectively as possible
Identify resources that would help people in or considering Council leadership positions
Identify areas of additional collaboration and cooperation between groups or across the Councils overall
Develop some action plans for moving ideas to reality or for consideration by the Governance Board as needed
Discussion topics
Time | Item | Facilitator | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
10 min | Welcome, goals, and explanation of agenda | ? | |
45 min (15 minutes for each theme) | Breakouts | Working in small groups facilitated by a Council leader, use the discussion questions to brainstorm ideas for improvements and new initiatives around each of the themes. Groups will rotate through the three themes. Ideas will be shared in cumulative Google docs available to all participants. | |
Leading Teams: For those of you in a leadership position, what motivated you to step forward to lead your team/council? What have been the biggest rewards? What challenges have you encountered? How might you respond if a trusted colleague asked for your honest assessment of the experience? For those of you considering stepping in to a leadership position or about to rotate into one, what are your professional and personal goals in relationship to this role? For all, what might success look like for you in terms of leading as part of the AS community? How could the ArchivesSpace team and governing board help you achieve this success, and to generally support the development of leaders within the archival field? (facilitator: ?) notetaking and idea list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CXlWM-fc1PDhqzJRa4Nm22kUox9bVmumyoLYpunxAqA/edit?usp=sharing (<-- this is an example - once it’s good to go Christine will make the other two) | |||
Building Teams: Why did you decide to get involved in the UAC/TAC, and what have been the major rewards from the experience? In what ways can we better communicate the opportunities to the AS community to encourage more participation? What makes a successful TAC/UAC team? If you’ve been on more than one team, compare and contrast those experiences. What worked particularly well? What didn’t? Within the teams environment, how can we cross pollenate without duplicating work? How can we ensure that each team has the right number and mix of skills, expertise, technical knowledge, etc.? (facilitator: ?) | |||
Supporting and Sustaining Teams: Are there administrative aspects of your work that the ArchivesSpace team could assist with that would make it easier to focus on your team’s core work? If you could delegate one aspect of what you or your team do, what would it be? With revolving terms and membership on each team, how can we preserve forward momentum through membership cycles? (facilitator: ?) | |||
20 min | Reporting and full group discussion | A designated reporter from the last group for each of the three themes will report on and lead further discussion on that topic. | |
10 min | Anything else (i.e. is there a topic beyond the breakouts and the reporting from the breakouts that we want to be sure to cover in the big group?) | ||
5 min | Next steps | ||